2 More Days!! (Gallbladder, continued)
The drain-thingy gets pulled out Thursday morning - can't wait for the tube and bulb to be gone, but not looking forward to the process of getting it pulled out. Prayers/thoughts that goes smoothly.
I've been healing up pretty well. Early on, things like getting up or sitting down were painful and straightening up all the way was searing, but doable. Then it got easier, and after a week I could get around without thinking much about it... until yesterday. I was getting up from the chair and felt something like a rip underneath my bellybutton. Like - internally behind the navel, and a couple inches towards the right (toward where the drain tube goes into my belly). Hurt so sharply that I doubled over. Scared me to death! Any kind of move brought it back - all afternoon, evening, and more again this morning. I started digging around on the interwebz and found that it's not terribly unusual for someone who has had the laparoscopic procedure. They do an inch or so incision into the navel and use that as an access point for camera, or gas tube, or whatever else they shove in there (RotoRooter?) So the outside appearance is a simple line, which looks neat and tidy and nearly healed - but who knows what all they did inside there.
I know a couple of my readers here have also had their gallbladders removed - do you recall going through something like this? It's eased a bit, and I'm not seeing any redness, extra swelling, and I'm not running a fever. Two of the other incisions have healed over nicely, the navel is close, and the upper one (where they removed the gb, I believe) has another week or so to go. Overall, still pretty quick compared to that c-section I had 11.5 yrs ago!
MY theory is that my surgeon was a smart-alec and moved around a bunch of my organs while he was in there, just to confuse the heck out of the next person who does a sonagram on me. Or maybe he stuck some spare parts in there just for fun. He just looks like the type to do that. Gotta keep an eye on these guys.
I've been healing up pretty well. Early on, things like getting up or sitting down were painful and straightening up all the way was searing, but doable. Then it got easier, and after a week I could get around without thinking much about it... until yesterday. I was getting up from the chair and felt something like a rip underneath my bellybutton. Like - internally behind the navel, and a couple inches towards the right (toward where the drain tube goes into my belly). Hurt so sharply that I doubled over. Scared me to death! Any kind of move brought it back - all afternoon, evening, and more again this morning. I started digging around on the interwebz and found that it's not terribly unusual for someone who has had the laparoscopic procedure. They do an inch or so incision into the navel and use that as an access point for camera, or gas tube, or whatever else they shove in there (RotoRooter?) So the outside appearance is a simple line, which looks neat and tidy and nearly healed - but who knows what all they did inside there.
I know a couple of my readers here have also had their gallbladders removed - do you recall going through something like this? It's eased a bit, and I'm not seeing any redness, extra swelling, and I'm not running a fever. Two of the other incisions have healed over nicely, the navel is close, and the upper one (where they removed the gb, I believe) has another week or so to go. Overall, still pretty quick compared to that c-section I had 11.5 yrs ago!
MY theory is that my surgeon was a smart-alec and moved around a bunch of my organs while he was in there, just to confuse the heck out of the next person who does a sonagram on me. Or maybe he stuck some spare parts in there just for fun. He just looks like the type to do that. Gotta keep an eye on these guys.